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Lieven (Lievijn, Liefken de Keyser, or Liefken van Gent) Jansz was an Anabaptist martyr, burned at the stake on 6 August 1552 at Amsterdam together with five co-martyrs. Lieven Jansz, who was a native of Ghent, Belgium, and a weaver by trade, had been baptized by Gillis van Aken.

Braght, Thieleman J. van. The Bloody Theatre or Martyrs' Mirror of the Defenseless Christians Who Baptized Only upon Confession of Faith and Who Suffered and Died for the Testimony of Jesus Their Saviour . . . to the Year A.D. 1660. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1951: 535. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm.